"How quickly you learn to depend on him, and how soon you find yourself intrusting him with weightier matters! The boy who has acquired a reputation for punctuality has made the first contribution to the capital that in after years makes his success a certainty." Promptness is the mother of confidence and gives credit.

It is the best possible proof that our own affairs are well ordered and well conducted, and gives others confidence in our ability.

The man who is punctual, as a rule, will keep his word, and may be depended upon.
A conductor's watch is behind time, and a terrible railway collision occurs.

A leading firm with enormous assets becomes bankrupt, simply because an agent is tardy in transmitting available funds, as ordered.
An innocent man is hanged because the messenger bearing a reprieve should have arrived five minutes earlier.

A man is stopped five minutes to hear a trivial story and misses a train or steamer by one minute.
Grant decided to enlist the moment that he learned of the fall of Sumter.